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Private space pilots are flying orbital missions for the US Space Force

True Anomaly and Rocket Lab are performing Top Gun-style satellite fly-bys for the US military.

Tesla driver faces manslaughter charges over Texas crash that killed a woman inside her home

The man whose Tesla struck and killed a woman inside her Texas home last month is now facing manslaughter charges, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and local news outlet KHOU 11. 44-year-old Michael Butler was arrested on Wednesday and claimed to have been driving his Model 3 using Tesla's Full-Self Driving (FSD) […]

U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/israel-iran-negotiators-plot.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767914

Points: 33

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Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups like Etched through Arizona connections

Selby's VC firm, Copper Sky Capital, is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.

Simple, beautiful Emacs modeline: modusregel

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/modusregel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767834

Points: 6

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Meta has a new app called Pocket that is absolutely nothing like the old Pocket

Mozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch: this new app lets you make and share little interactive "gizmos" built from an AI prompt, as reported by Business Insider. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI […]

Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

Article URL: https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767347

Points: 226

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How Big Is ‘Love Island USA’? More Than 10 Million People Are Already on Its App

“We have more people voting on the ‘Love Island USA’ app than we do in many political elections taking place across the country,” says the show's executive producer.

IQM, Europe’s first public quantum company, admits the future of the tech is uncertain

IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq today at a valuation of about $1.9 billion.

The best July 4th sales we found so far

July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday. Best Buy is […]